A Study and Analysis of Obstacles Barriers of Water Tourism Developments in Khuzestan Province

Abstract

The present study is an applied-theoretical and methodological-descriptive-analytic one. The results showed that based on Pearson's analysis; there is a significant and direct significant relationship between the independent variables of the research and the dependent variable. The results of Friedman test indicate that the variable of weak tendency and low participation of private sector for investment with average rating of 55.4 has the highest score and the planning and management variable with average rating of 18.3 has the lowest rating. The results of the pls structural equation model are positive with respect to the share index and the redundancy index and a value of 0.01, 36.0 25.0 which is presented as the mean, moderate and low values for god, and obtain a value of 0.50 for the appropriate model gof. Confirms and indicates the impact of independent variables on the dependent variable of research.

Keywords

• development
• water tourism
• structural equation modeling
• khuzestan province